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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northern Puerto Rico on the Atlantic Ocean. It is the site of an observatory with the world's largest radio telescope.
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Gloomy News for Arecibo is the next entry in this blog.
Mike Griffin Seems To Be A little Confused - NASA Watch 2007
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Arecibo is picking up an artificial signal from an intelligent source. †Jim straightened, raked his hair back with his fingers. “Play it. †“What? †“I’m just curious; the transmission looks like an AM radio broadcast. †He leaned forward. “Dave, can we play it? †“Well, let’s see††Dave punched buttons. “There we go! â€
365 tomorrows » Project Starshot : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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Arecibo is picking up an artificial signal from an intelligent source. †Jim straightened, raked his hair back with his fingers. “Play it. †“What? †“I’m just curious; the transmission looks like an AM radio broadcast. †He leaned forward. “Dave, can we play it? †“Well, let’s see††Dave punched buttons. “There we go! â€
365 tomorrows » 2007 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2007
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The research is being done by the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo, which is the home of the world's largest single-dish radio telescope.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Publicity documents insist that the HAARP project is no different than other ionospheric heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Tromso, Norway, and the former Soviet Union.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Publicity documents insist that the HAARP project is no different than other ionospheric heaters operating safely throughout the world in places such as Arecibo, Puerto Rico, Tromso, Norway, and the former Soviet Union.
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If you've ever seen the movies Contact or Goldeneye, you've seen Arecibo.
Zoe P. Strassfield: Secret Passages and the Invisible Universe Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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I'd gotten an e-mail saying that the club's former president, Trey Wegner, who was at home recovering from an automobile accident, would be video-chatting with the club and remote observing using the Arecibo Radio Telescope during the meeting!
Zoe P. Strassfield: Secret Passages and the Invisible Universe Zoe P. Strassfield 2011
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On November 16, 1974 when the so-called “Arecibo message” was broadcast from the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico to globular star cluster Messier 13, many doomsayers warned that the transmission would herald an alien invasion.
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He also told me that he last visited Puerto Rico last May and that his roots are from the towns of Bayamón and Arecibo.
Julio Pabon: Victor Cruz And His Boricua Self Julio Pabon 2012
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